[LoGH] Some more research! Fun!
Rob Ketcherside (roba@anime.net)
Thu, 28 Sep 2000 20:41:29 -0700
Info on the following names:
Legmiza
Ku Horin
Legmiza, in kana is LEGUNITSa. Notice the "ni". This is actually the city
Legnica, Poland. We should probably use the Prussian spelling, "Liegnitz"
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=0BBBB000
Excerpt:
Legnica, city in southwestern Poland, capital of Legnica Province.
Chartered in 1252, Legnica was the capital of a Polish duchy of the Piast
dynasty until 1675, when it passed to the Habsburg dynasty. Legnica was
acquired by Prussia in 1742. Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great)
defeated the Austrians here in a battle in 1760. Legnica, then known as
Liegnitz, remained under German control until World War II. It suffered
extensive damage toward the end of the war, when it was taken by the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Postwar agreements returned Legnica to
Poland in 1945.
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Ku Horin.. This should be Cu Chulainn. This was a hero in Irish Gaelic
mythology. (BTW, are 'gaelic' and 'celtic' different? The Japanese page I
went to to begin with said that it was 'celt'. BTW, I wouldn't trust the 1st
c. BC date given by encarta.. it was first written in 7BC and had been
passed by oral tradition for centuries before that.
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761575401
Cú Chulainn, principal hero of the Ulster Cycle of early Irish Gaelic
literature, of about the 1st century BC. As a youth, Cú Chulainn (or
Cuchulainn) was renowned for his great strength and heroic deeds. He was
educated by the outstanding warriors and poets of the time at the court of
his uncle, Chonchobor, king of Ulster. He died through Medb's trickery after
a battle against all the forces of Ireland
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/others/Greer/chulainn.html
One day, the hellhound watchdog of Culann the smith obstructed young Cu
Chulainn’s way to a party he had been invited to, so he, already late, slew
the dog. This type of senseless, and mostly unprovoked, violence would come
to be his standard reaction to adverse situations, and would eventually lead
to his downfall.
http://www.necromantic.net/deadparrot/celtic.html
